04/02/2020 - The director’s new fiction film will have its world premiere in the Panorama section of the German festival. A Geko Films production sold by Jour2Fête

Revealed with the mid-length feature A World Without Women in 2011, followed by Tonnerre [+see also:
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film profile], a fiction film to be unveiled in the Panorama section of the 70^th Berlinale (20 February - 1 March). A new work which saw the director cast young actors from the 2020 class of the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Paris, more specifically Éric Nantchouang, Salif Cissé, Édouard Sulpice, Asma Messaoudene and Ana Blagojevič.

Written by the director together with Catherine Paillé (Shéhérazade [+see also:
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Produced by Grégoire Debailly (Producer on the Move 2019 of the European Film Promotion – read the interview) for Geko Films and co-produced by Arte France, À l’abordage has also benefited from the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. International sales are handled by Jour2Fête.

For the record, Geko Films will be releasing tomorrow in French cinemas Léo Karmann’s Simon's Got a Gift [+see also:
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(Translated from French)